In an era where cyber-attacks are growing and becoming increasingly sophisticated, it's not surprising to find that the number of data breaches has also grown exponentially. Regulatory requirements make encryption a necessity for many. Companies that need to comply with regulations such as PCIDSS or HIPAA must have an auditable...

Malware has evolved from large-scale massive attacks to include Targeted Attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats that cannot be stopped by antivirus alone. It’s time to move beyond antivirus. Download this report to learn how you can focus on your business without compromising security or performance with Symantec™ Endpoint Protection providing:...

Consolidating physical servers within a shared framework provides many benefits: A significant reduction in cabling for power distribution and networking Cooling can be consolidated as well to provide better efficiency at the rack and also increasing the efficiency of CRAC air units Systems management is streamlined to provide easier monitoring...

More and more organisations are choosing to work with vendors investing in solutions that can process, support and manage mission-critical workloads for cloud solutions, mobility capabilities, and data analytics initiatives in today's data centres. This IDC whitepaper will outline how Dell and its partners are able to partners are able...

As IT has become essential to the business and as technology has become more complex, specialisation has increased, and organisational silos have grown. IT Operations lacks a single pane of view into business service health, fault, and topology, reducing efficiency and increasing costs. This paper shows you how consolidating...

More responsive IT is the key to a more responsive and efficient enterprise, according to IDC research. Read the report that describes why IT automation is an urgent priority, and how effective automation and orchestration can pay huge dividends. The report also explores: Top IT management priorities for the...

Considering or investigating a configuration repository, a Configuration Management Database (CMDB), or IT service views? Read this Gartner report to understand what CMDB capabilities you need to build and maintain an accurate and current view of applications or IT services.

Recent technology trends such as mobile, big data, and the cloud have created opportunities for IT, but they’ve also created additional cost and complexity in the data center. Take a look at the infographic that quantifies the challenges data center managers are facing and the business value of moving...

This white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. Since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon...

Despite advances by the security industry, criminals continue to evolve their approaches to break through security defenses. New threat intelligence and trend analysis in the Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report show that attackers are realizing that bigger and bolder are not always better. Understand how attackers are using gaps between...

A new paradigm shift in IT security is starting to emerge as enterprises begin to accept the possibility that their organizations may be breached, even after they have invested significantly in security technologies to prevent such incidents from happening. As a result, more enterprises are looking beyond a preventive approach,...

The only way to defeat today’s security threats is to address them holistically across the full attack continuum - before, during, and after an attack. Cisco’s approach of continuous endpoint analysis in combination with a big data architecture is foundational to this model. Our innovations in advanced malware protection include:...

With recent high-profile breaches at some of the largest retailers and financial institutions worldwide, there has been an increase in awareness, rising to the executive and even board levels. This IDC Brief explores the shift to "3rd Platform" era which is built on a foundation of mobile, social, Big Data,...

SSL is the set of cryptographic protocols that secure data in transit. Today SSL is often the only tool standing between your organization and the bad actors. The stakes around SSL have been upleveled to the limit. Whether or not it’s convenient to admit, it’s time for organizations to uplevel...

Every day, emails flood our inbox: tasks are left undone, messages go unanswered, and meetings overwhelm us. But new technology is anticipating user needs and improving productivity. Watch this vodcast to learn why email must evolve and how social analytics are being used to understand and cater for individual working...

To meet these challenges, businesses are embracing “software defined” environments, which enable unparalleled flexibility and ease of management. Setting these up, however, requires a level of expertise not found in most companies. This white paper explores the need for accelerated business operations and the ways that IBM services deliver effective...

Metadata can form the cornerstone of a more effective ECM initiative. With a metadata-driven ECM solution in place, companies can leave the limitations and hassles of outdated folder-based approaches behind. The result is faster access to content, better protection of sensitive information, the ability to automate processes and workflows, and...

Information is the world's new currency. Unfortunately, many companies struggle to effectively manage and harness their vast collection of information assets that reside in different and disconnected systems and devices. Learn about ways to tame the chaos.

Business systems have evolved into critical elements of conducting normal, day-to-day business. Backup and recovery systems for an organization should not only be flexible and robust enough to restore user data quickly and accurately, but also entire systems and applications to prevent minimal downtime. Read more..

The Security Program Assessment follows a logical sequence of steps to help you answer the question “How secure do you want to be?” It starts with assessing your current situation based on 10 key areas, designing solutions to address the issues in your environment, creating a clear roadmap to transform...

An important shift has occurred in the security landscape of late. To keep pace in an ever more competitive world, businesses are adopting new ways of doing business, making them more dependent than ever on connected services and exposing them to new security challenges This paper details to IT leadership...

Symantec has identified the top 10 tips to secure your business against cyber risk and threats.
Read this one page report to get insights and recommendation from one of the most trusted brands in Cyber Security - Symantec.

While we have seen modest gains in organizations’ ability to overcome the security gap, advanced (and not-so advanced) threat actors continue to evolve their tactics to find a way through it. The M-ternds report by Mandiant, provides a brief overview of the how attackers’ motives and tactics changed in 2014....

Whether you are operating a mature strategy or just starting out on your virtualisation journey, our services are designed to ensure your ICT benefits from simpler scalability, reliability and performance. Read More..

Whether you have already thought about a value-based approach or would like help shifting away from the costbased model, our services will help you apportion the right data protection and manage your storage more effectively as a result. Read More..

There is an undeniable link between the use of sales analytics and strong sales performance. An organization’s ability to grow revenue in a sustainable, predictable way relies on sales analytics. Sales organizations must find a way to aggregate, sift through, and make sense of all of their data to find...

Read this e-book and learn how to empower sales with self-service business intelligence in order to gain better insight into your pipeline, get to know your customers better, close bigger deals faster, and uncover better cross-sell and up-sell opportunities with less effort.
Download this e-book to learn more.

Read this e-book and learn how to empower sales with self-service business intelligence in order to gain better insight into your pipeline, get to know your customers better, close bigger deals faster, and uncover better cross-sell and up-sell opportunities with less effort.

There is an undeniable link between the use of sales analytics and strong sales performance. An organization’s ability to grow revenue in a sustainable, predictable way relies on sales analytics. Sales organizations must find a way to aggregate, sift through, and make sense of all of their data to find...

In a recent study, Aberdeen provided a data and performance-driven bridge between two unlikely enterprise business partners: Sales Leadership and the IT team. The common ground here is sales analytics, or the business intelligence tools that leader companies more effectively leverage to support better sales forecasting, deal-making, and closing activities...

Hard to believe the world’s biggest sporting event was just over 229 days ago. The FIFA World Cup seems like a lifetime ago – it’s hard to remember who hosted, let alone who did well. What’s harder to believe is if you just discovered a security threat, chances are you’ve...

Five key areas to consider when choosing your next firewall
Checklist of the security capabilities you need
Questions to ask vendors to make sure they meet your requirements
Comparisons of Sophos, Fortinet, Dell SonicWALL and WatchGuard

Remote and roaming workers are constantly checking email, downloading data and staying productive. Results are their top priority - security is not. IT departments must mitigate the risks of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

This whitepaper explains the benefits of a monitoring solution that equips enterprise IT organisations and service providers with capabilities to dramatically improve service quality and reduce the costs and time of IT service delivery.

In the managed services market, monitoring capabilities can play an integral role in the type, quality, and revenue potential of services provided. Further, they can play a determining role in how successfully a service provider business can scale. This whitepaper offers a comparison of CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM,...

Find out more about Backbone Connect's special offer and how to leverage it to increase your data center space. Some of the highlights include:
Excellent Internet access and WAN connectivity
Over 400 carriers and CDN providers
24/7 access to your racks

While spreadsheets are widely used for statistical analysis, they are useful only to a certain point. When used for a task they’re not designed to perform, or for a task beyond the limit of their capabilities, using spreadsheets can be risky. Read this paper to learn about more powerful yet...

Are you ready for BYOD? For successful BYOD operations, organizations must address issues they may not have considered yet, but that can have significant consequences for business and IT operations.
Here are seven questions you should answer as you roll out new mobile capabilities

Mobile devices, social business apps, and business analytics are converging with the Cloud to create the most substantial changes in technology since the Internet revolution. Businesses have to change the way they think and operate, and with rising budgets for technology, they need someone to provide the services that will...

This book examines data storage and management challenges and explains software-defined storage, an innovative solution for high-performance, cost-effective storage using the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS).

Adoption of enterprise mobility has surged in the Asia/Pacific region, but this context of mobility tends to be defined as the individual worker being “untethered” from the traditional workplace. While workers have mobile access, they still do not have all that they need to complete a task or project. Download...

Many organizations are updating their data architectures to include one or more data lakes -- large pools of unstructured data that are available for multiple, unpredictable queries and uses. When you draw data from the lake, how confident are you that it’s not only relevant but also timely and clean?...

This white paper will discuss the evolution, benefits and challenges of data protection for virtual environments and how a modern data protection solution can enable both virtualization professionals and storage managers to perform successful backups, but more importantly guaranteed restores.

Customers are ubiquitously connected via their mobile devices, plugged into their social network and doing their own research to solve problems. In a world where buying decisions are made before you can even engage, salespeople must adapt to buyers. This whitepaper presents Microsoft’s vision for sales organizations to use technology...

As organizations endeavour to understand the differences among virtualized environments, private clouds and public clouds, as well as approaches such as IT as a Service (ITaaS) and software-defined data centres (SDDC), it helps to reset assumptions. Private clouds are the initial step IT enterprises usually take in this transformation. This...

Cloud computing models offer a new approach for IT organizations to deliver business services to end users. By implementing their own internal or "private" cloud
infrastructures, IT organizations can deploy a technology model that provides both flexible IT architectures and dynamic business agility.

Flash technology is making quite a splash in the storage industry. Offering superior speed and reliability when compared to traditional hard disk drives, flash storage is a flexible and increasingly cost-effective technology that can be used to optimize enterprise storage environments running mission-critical, I/O intensive applications. Find out more...

In this report, Towards a Cyber Resilience Partnership details to IT leadership the importance of cyber resilience in the face of evolving cyber threats. It defines the state of cyber resilience and the importance of security intelligence in achieving it, and recognises that security needs to go beyond systems, software...

Are you considering in-house disaster recovery management? In the last five years, many companies have. But did you know that without the proper resources in place, managing disaster recovery yourself can put a strain on your budget, your staff and your disaster preparedness? Read this IBM-Forrester global study “The Risks...

Based on information gathered in TSIA’s annual Global Technology Survey, this report will look at the trend of remote support services being adopted over many different industry types. Through the continued improvement of remote control, desktop sharing and web collaboration, companies are able to use these capabilities to increase productivity...

Enterprises have seen massive change over the last decade, but one thing has remained consistent: the Enterprise Network.
This article provides insight on an adaptable and programmable network platform to stay ahead of enterprise trends such as BYOD, Cloud Adoption and Xaas

IT Managers and administrators constantly seek strategies on how to holistically manage and orchestrate server and networking infrastructure and the software stack.
Download this Information guide on best practices to optimally manage the data center using systems management tools from Cisco and Microsoft.

IBM Security QRadar received an "Excellent" product viability rating again by Gartner in its Critical Capabilities for SIEM report. The report assesses 13 SIEM technologies by evaluating the capabilities that are critical for the support of threat management, compliance, and general SIEM deployment use cases. Gartner notes that SIEM...

Today’s consumers are on the move, and with mobile devices accounting for nearly 20 percent of site sales heading into the 2014 holiday season, creating compelling mobile experiences is no longer just a nice-to-have option. Read this research report from Aberdeen Group to get secrets on how targeted push notifications...

The consumerisation of IT combined with recent technology advances, like mobile and cloud, has created a perfect storm for surging IT demands. Read this eBook on how you can take a prescriptive approach to a simpler, faster and more cost effective PPM path to manage this surge in demand.

The growing complexity of managing datacentres is forcing organisations to take a hard look at co-location as a viable alternative to maintaining their in-house datacentre needs. Co-location will allow organisations to have the facilities they need, with provided space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking...

The Securing and Controlling Data in the Cloud white paper evaluates the
• benefits of cloud computing,
• the security challenges posed by the cloud,
• provides recommendations to secure and control sensitive data in cloud environments.

This report surveys the various encryption approaches for securing data at rest to understand what the technology does along with where each provides an optimal fit. After comparing the various encryption technologies, this paper explains why file level transparent data encryption provides the optimal balance of data type coverage, security,...

This White Paper shows the performance of several benchmark tests of Vormetric Transparent Encryption running on a Cloudera HADOOP system using several different workloads. The overhead is minimal and within acceptable norms of performance vs. security tradeoffs.

2014 has already proven to be an incredibly challenging and exciting year for customer support. With the backdrop of the changes TSIA identified in the new world of B4B, and all the traditional pressures faced by support services organizations, we are witnessing a pace of change that the majority of...

Big Data continues to create new ways of gathering and analyzing information. In the latest research by Harvard Business Review Analytics Services, a real-world lens of big data is provided for HR and Finance. View this infographic below to discover why big data matters to you and your organization.

This datasheet discusses the third party capabilities that Office 365 users should consider to add value to their platform. Mimecast provides a rich set of cloud services designed to meet the specific needs of O365 users and provides complementary services to eliminate business dependence on on-premises technologies. Check this out...

Symantec has identified the top 10 tips to secure your business against cyber risk and threats.
Read this one page report to get insights and recommendation from one of the most trusted brands in Cyber Security - Symantec.

Are you trying to determine the readiness of your enterprise’s content mobility solution? Today’s mobile worker want real-time, remote and secure access to your enterprise’s fast-growing information. To ensure the right data is in the right place at the right time, your organization needs a solution that provides your workforce...

Read the Forrester Research report to understand why IBM was named a leader in big data streaming analytics platforms and why InfoSphere Streams received the highest score possible in the implementation support and ability to execute categories.

IBM Platform Computing is a proven technology with a more advanced and capable computing infrastructure to cost effectively scale up and optimize computing capacity for risk management applications, such as those from Algorithmics.

"For one of the largest global studies ever conducted of more than 2,000 business continuity and IT security professionals, IBM teamed up with the Ponemon institute to dig deeper into the true economic impact of business continuity and security failures. The groundbreaking study revealed key findings that you’ll want to...

Making changes to your business strategy can often create new risks. If your business continuity management (BCM) plan is not part of an organization-wide, integrated program, it may not evolve to address these new risks. Understand which practices can be followed to successfully protect your organization’s business operations and reputation...

The 2014 Global Cost of Data Breach Study from Ponemon Institute, sponsored by IBM, Showcases How much could a data breach cost your organization? This report provides benchmark data based on actual experiences of organizations in United States

Using productivity tools for requirements management is like using a hammer to open a bottle. It gets the job done, but at what cost? IBM Rational DOORS NG offers effective requirements management capabilities by including the ability to capture relationships and manage dependencies.

From a communications equipment manufacturer optimizing investments with a security scan to a mutual insurance company reducing spam and threats with hosted web and email services, IBM security consultants have helped many companies evaluate their existing security practices against their business requirements and objectives. Read these customer references to learn...

Four technology trends—cloud computing, mobile technology, social collaboration and analytics—are shaping the business and converging on the data center. But few data center strategies are designed with the requisite flexibility, scalability or resiliency to meet the new demands. Read the white paper to learn how a good data center strategy...

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